In the present paper, a simple, and novel method for the abatement of paracetamol (PA) in aqueous system into environmental friendly compound benzoquinone at 308 K has been described, and was accelerated by simple, and inexpensive catalyst Cu(II)/Ni(II). A comparative assessment between Cu(II) and Ni(II)catalyzed, abatement of PA by CAT was performed. It has been determined that there are very little change in rate of reaction for both Cu(II)/Ni(II) catalyzed degradation of PA. All the kinetics parameters, i.e. the effect of change in concentrations of chloramine-T (CAT), sodium hydroxide, paracetamol, catalyst, added p-toluenesulfonamide, electrolyte etc. have been studied, and measured carefully. Reaction had been studied in the range of temperature 303-323 K. On the basis of kinetic data obtained a satisfactory mechanism has been proposed. And it was deduced that, presently used process was a tenable technique for the degradation of PA. Main abatement product was confirmed by GC-MS analysis technique.

A field experiment was conducted during Kharif 2016-17 to estimate the phenotypic component parameters for twelve quantitative characters among 23 genotypes. Hundred seed weight showed significant positive correlation with leaf length (0.2723**), peduncle length (0.2649**), plant height (0.3623**), pod length (0.2419**), days to 1 st flowering (0.3413**), days to 50 per cent flowering (0.3608**) and green pod yield per plant (0.6110**). On the other side, hundred seed weight showed significant negative phenotypic correlation with number of pod per plant (-0.2319**), number of primary branches (-0.3658**) and number of cluster per plant (-0.2946**). The green pod yield per plant exhibited highly significant positive association with leaf length (0.2596**), leaf width (0.3208**), plant height (0.3357**), 100 seed weight (0.6110**), days to 1 st flowering (0.4082**) and days to 50 per cent flowering (0.4380**) but not correlated negatively with any characters. High correlation of green pod yield per plant with plant height, 100 seed weight, first flowering and 50 per cent flowering suggested that green pod yield could be raised by selecting for early maturing plant type having sufficient crop canopy. However, when crop is grown as leguminous fodder and green manuring purpose, breeding should be practiced for comparative higher canopy with higher crop growth rate and late maturing genotypes should be preferred.

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